Books and Baubles: Holiday Tales for Your E-Reader

Friday, November 22, 2013

What's a holiday without a little spirit? Join authors Karen Cantwell, Misha Crews, and Laura Lucas for half a dozen comical, fun, and warm-hearted Christmas tales. All profits from the sales of A Spirited Season will go to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals because everyone deserves a miracle.

Sarah Anderson and Annie Jacobs have not had the best of years. And now, here come the holidays. Great. But, maybe with a little help from their friends, Christmas won't be a total wash after all. This holiday season, take a break from all the hustle and bustle, pour yourself a beverage, and have A Bibliophile Christmas.

When the drummer for ’80s hair-metal band Twelve falls from the top of a holiday parade float and gets trampled to death by eight not-so-tiny reindeer, Tina scoops the story of the year! But was the fall an accident or something more sinister? Was the drummer’s jilted lover involved, or his newly discovered son? And what does the snowman have to do with it? Crack tabloid reporter Tina’s on the case—determined to find out who’s been naughty and who’s been downright lethal.

Shortly before the holidays, inventor and former assassin Missi Bombay gets orders to perform one last job. It’s the granddaddy of all hits—to be carried out on Christmas Eve, no less. Missi knows she has only one chance at success, so she enlists the help of her cousins Gin, Dakota, and Coney. Together the Bombay cousins come out of retirement to stamp out the world’s most evil cabal. Armed with four enormous, prehistoric-looking birds and Missi’s quirky inventions, will these Bombays succeed before their window of opportunity closes for good?

This time of year, it’s all about going home for the holidays. But what if you’re not sure where home is? In this Romantic Comedy, think Preston Bailey and David Tutera meet The Grinch and his desperate housewife.

Eager to banish the ghost of Christmas past, Lucy is determined to make this the best Christmas ever. She rallies friends and family for an epic celebration that just happens to fall on the same day as her ex's festive wedding. Furious at how she's been treated, Lucy can't help relishing the party vs. wedding smackdown.

Come celebrate the holidays in 1895 Sweetwater Springs, Montana, as ten Western Romance authors join New York Times Bestselling author Debra Holland in telling short stories of love and laughter, heartbreak and healing, and most of all, Christmas joy.

Just in time for the holidays, take another wonderful trip to Oregon. Enjoy this sweet story about some new small-town people and learn about the lives and loves of a hot young couple. Don’t miss this opportunity to catch up on some of your favorite book people and the enchanting town of Pride.

'Tis the season for Sedona O'Hala. Life around the holidays gets a little dicey when she's forced to work undercover in a hospital while trying to manage family craziness she fears may ruin the possibility of a very merry Christmas. A Sedona O'Hala mystery.

How far would you go for your friend? Alissa Thompson has been the good girl her whole life. But this Christmas when her steadfast childhood friend Charlie needs her more than ever, she can’t back down. Crossing the line means being braver than she has ever been in her life.

This sensuous romance is like a Hallmark Christmas movie with some intense love scenes. When a young woman hires her hometown's former bad boy to be her pretend fiancé for the holidays, she finds she can't wrap up her feelings as easily as a Christmas gift.